From thence they dart down their spears, the blades of which are twenty inches long by two broad, when the motion of the handle, aided by knocking against the trees, makes fearful gashes which soon cause death.
There were gashes in the table-cloth and in the curtains and in the two arm-chairs.
There were long gashes on the backs of his books, and she had taken the trouble to tear pages out of the unbound French ones.
Then he would give three gashes to an arm, the second cut on the inside of an elbow, and would sever the limb.
The Bushman had a narrow escape; he was not altogether scatheless, the lion having inflicted two gashes in his seat with his claws.
I counted the deep wounds and the wide gashes whence the blood was flowing.
Then the ranks of the combatants waver and are broken; blood is seen upon the white sand: it flows from large gashes in the gladiators’ sinking forms.
His abdomen was scored by two long gashes meeting in a point.
The man turned, and showed three terrible gashes in his back.
Yet his companions continued to yell and dance round, keeping well out of reach of the terrible claws; while blood was streaming from a dozen deep gashes in the little man's body.
But Bomolo cut three gashes in his back, and struck off two of his toes with his knife.
But after a battle, what gashes and gaping wounds are seen, while the ground is red with the flowing blood, and the dying in their agony are trampled under the feet of horses, or covered with heaps of dead bodies.
I have been left wounded on the field, unable to move from among the feet of trampling horses, my open gashes stiffening in the chilly night air, and death staring me in the face, while no man cared for my soul.
But, after a battle, what gashes and gaping wounds are seen, what multitudes of mangled carcases.
Several sudden red gashes on his head showed where those knife-like talons had struck.
He halted to rest and recover himself; and in the clear, tonic air, so cold that every morning the edges of the lake were crisped with ice, the aching red gashes on his flank speedily healed.
The breast or back, of both sexes, is usually tattooed, or rather, scored with rows of hideous raised scars, produced by deep gashes made at puberty.
At the age of puberty the lad was tattooed or scarred with gashes cut in back, shoulders, arms and chest, and the septum of the nose was pierced.
The gashes varied in patterns for the different tribes.
Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head, The least a death to nature.
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorize another Golgotha, I cannot tell- But I am faint; my gashes cry for help.
Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them.
The father struggled to his feet, and as he arose with the child in his grasp, the blood flowed from several gashes in his face and crimsoned his shirt.
Very many broken limbs and protruding bones were found, and there were gashes in the upturned faces or fractures in the smooth-burned skulls, so that each corpse as it was dragged into the light was a new revelation of ghastliness.
The face, now strong with a new kind of strength, showed the marks and gashes of Experience.
The gaunt squares, the wide, old-fashioned streets, were like gashes cut into a face of despair.
The crowd was headed by about a hundred men, whose garments were streaming with blood, their heads and faces covered with gashes of all sorts and sizes.
When the poppy is ripe, the "head" is scratched at sunset with a kind of comb in three places; from these gashes the opium oozes out.
The lion had bitten deeply into the back of Matohota's neck and ripped terrible gashes in his back.
Its great claws tore down through the thick, shaggy coat, and ripped great gashes in his flesh and its flashing fangs sank deep into the back of his neck.
To such an extent was this the case that, though a strong working party was at hand ready for any emergency, it was deemed useless to attempt to free the ship of water until her gashes had been temporarily closed from outside.
On the outside stood a gigantic negro, of muscular frame, clothed in a few rags, the blood streaming from twenty gashes in his body and limbs.
Gorges which were hardly perceptible as such from the valley, now proved to be uncomfortably deep gashes in the broad mountain-side, and tiny streams came down each one of them, to water dense thickets along their banks.
Here the face is scarred not only by the horizontal lines denoting the separate strata, but also by vertical gashes of cleavage some of which are strongly marked cracks extending from top to bottom.
His face and body were almost entirely covered with gashes from the Prussians' bayonets.
His shoes were cut up and his clothes dangled in ribbons beneath which red gashes showed in his flesh where he had torn it in the barbed-wire fences he had encountered, crossing fields.
I, my good Lord: safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head; The least a Death to Nature Macb.
No outlet could therefore at any time exist, except along this barrier, and an inspection of its present condition reveals several deep gashes through which at one time the surplus water made its escape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gashes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
